Chapter 5: "The Phantom Brakeman—1933" It is 1933, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the nation's new president. Shirley Temple is the new entertainment sensation, and Mary Alice, like every other girl in America, is learning to tap dance in imitation of the child star. Joey is thirteen, a teenager at last. He likes to be called Joe now, not Joey. During their annual trip to Grandma's, Joe and Mary Alice go down to the Coffee Pot Cafe one day to enjoy some Nehi sodas.
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Emily looked at Jill and said, “You’re not going to drink are you?” Jill responded, “No, I am just going to carry around this cup so I can look cool.” Emily believed that Jill was telling the truth. The three girls went there separate way but made a plan to meet in the front of the house at exactly midnight. All three girls were mingling with their classmates and really enjoying the party. There was a lot of alcohol, people, and even a disc jockey (DJ) at the party. The
This is where Janis had stated that they were friends and Cady stayed with them. During this moment, Cady is then introduced to the ‘Plastics’. According to Janis and Ian, the Plastics contain three girls in the group which includes: Karen, the dumb one; Gretchen Wieners, the one who spreads rumours and lies; and last but not least, Regina George, the manipulative Queen Bee. During lunch on her second day, Janis and Ian passes Cady a map of the cafeteria seating plans with all the groups and cliques. Some of them include: Freshman’s, ROTC guys, Preps, J.V Jocks, Asian Nerds, Cool Asians, Varsity Jocks, Unfriendly black hotties, Girls who eat their feelings, Girls who don’t eat anything, Art Freaks, Desperate wannabes, Burnouts, Sexually active band geeks and The plastics.
In the hall one day Jamie Jadestone one of the most popular girls in school came over to Julia and tried to start trouble, but to bad Julia is a smart cookie and can get herself out of bad situations she just simply said “Get out of the way” and walked on and that was in between second and third hour time and Jamie was in Julia’s next class. Mrs. Appleseed who taught World Geography and didn’t stand for any clowning in her class, nothing got past her eyes. Jamie was trying to pass a note to get best friend Amy but Mrs. Appleseed saw her doing it and sent her to the principle’s office, Julia thought “She gets what she dishes out” and smiles. The next day was winter break and everyone was acting
”I think the administration is wrong in this situation, and I don’t want this to happen to other people.” The five editors, who said their decision was unanimous, said Spies’ blame was misplaced, in both targeting the administration, and believing that it was a dress code issue. They also offered her an opportunity to include the photo in the yearbook, just not as her senior photo. “If she (Spies) chooses to, the picture will run as her senior ad, not her senior portrait,” Trujillo said. Despite the clarification from her peers into how and why the decision was made, a meeting Spies initiated between herself, her mother, and the school’s principal, Diane Lashinsky, was held today as planned. “The editors all turned their backs on me and changed their minds,” she told the Herald.
Foster Mcfee is a 12 year old girl from Memphis. She is obsessed with baking all types of cupcakes to cakes. She was living a normal life baking and watching her mom perform as a backstage singer with her boyfriend Huck also called as Elvis at least he thought of himself as one. Well one night everything changes when they hear the window crash this is after her mom and Huck have a breakup and he is really mad so he breaks in and tries to talk to Rayka, Fosters mom and he ends up hitting her in the eye so Foster and Rayka run as fast as they could away from Huck trying to find any safe place away from him and his violence. They end up in a small town in Virginia called Culpepper where they find nice people that help them and soon Foster starts
She’s obviously been given this speech in the past because she finishes all of his sentences. At her house, she tells Morgan (Paula Patton), who hopes to nab an NBA player for herself. She doesn’t have a job, but she thinks that all the research she puts into finding an NBA husband is work. The next day, she and Leslie head off to a nets game, dressed very differently. Leslie’s in a pair of jeans and a jersey; Morgan’s in a dress.
An example of this is the walk-a-thon where Josephine is put in charge of taking care of the back of the group but she abandons her duty as her friends convince her into skipping school to meet a celebrity. This is also the time where the peer pressure from their friends affects the decision making of adolescents. Themes Narration The narrator of
1.Why did the girls want to have the party? The party was to get to know the kids from their new school. 2.Who was very hesitant about having the party? Alice’s sister Polly, she said she didn’t people in the house giving her a headache, but agrees for Alice. 3.Who gets killed at the party?